2022 Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in New Jersey

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 37,535 people earned their degree in construction trades, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, construction trades graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,448 and had an average of $11,769 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 891 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,744 and $9,354 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,475 and $14,203 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction trades programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the construction trades program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey associate degree construction trades students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades in New Jersey

#1

Raritan Valley Community College

Branchburg, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$6,917 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Raritan Valley Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in New Jersey. This medium-sized school is located in Branchburg, New Jersey, and it awarded 13 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.

RVCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. It costs about $6,917 for New Jersey Associate Degree Construction Trades students per year to attend Raritan Valley Community College.

Read full report on Construction Trades at Raritan Valley Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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